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He found some rocks with marks and not only they are dice, invented 6000 years before anywhere else in the world, but also evidence that native Americans had ma

He found some rocks with marks and not only they are dice, invented 6000 years before anywhere else in the world, but also evidence that native Americans had mathematical concepts not invented before the Renaissance.

poulpy123 7mo ago
Man I found the article and it's hilarious bad science. My favorite parts are the long passage about the native American owned casinos, the constant reference to randomness or and probability without providing any data on the actual randomness and probability of the artefacts and the cherry on the cake: the fact he pretends that flat rocks with markings are comparable to the six faced dice with numbering of the indus valley civilisation (that he carefully avoid to show or describes). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...
culi 7mo ago
They didn't find some new rocks. They reexamined a bunch of artifacts we had and realized they were something akin to "dice". And they weren't 12k years old. They were throughout the record all the way back to 12k years ago
- culi 7mo ago
  > Second, the evidence developed here shows that artifacts exhibiting the diagnostic attributes of historic Native American dice appear in archaeological assemblages from diverse groups throughout all periods of North American prehistory—from the Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene (aka the Paleoindian period), around 13,000–8000 years before the present (BP); through the Middle Holocene (aka the Archaic period), around 8000–2000 BP; and into the Late Holocene (aka the Late Prehistoric period), around 2000–450 BP https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

poulpy123 7mo ago

Man I found the article and it's hilarious bad science. My favorite parts are the long passage about the native American owned casinos, the constant reference to randomness or and probability without providing any data on the actual randomness and probability of the artefacts and the cherry on the cake: the fact he pretends that flat rocks with markings are comparable to the six faced dice with numbering of the indus valley civilisation (that he carefully avoid to show or describes). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

culi 7mo ago

They didn't find some new rocks. They reexamined a bunch of artifacts we had and realized they were something akin to "dice". And they weren't 12k years old. They were throughout the record all the way back to 12k years ago

culi 7mo ago
> Second, the evidence developed here shows that artifacts exhibiting the diagnostic attributes of historic Native American dice appear in archaeological assemblages from diverse groups throughout all periods of North American prehistory—from the Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene (aka the Paleoindian period), around 13,000–8000 years before the present (BP); through the Middle Holocene (aka the Archaic period), around 8000–2000 BP; and into the Late Holocene (aka the Late Prehistoric period), around 2000–450 BP https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...